Smoker&#39;s device



A. H. SMEBY 2,189,842

SMOKER s DEVICE Filed Oct. 15, 1936 INVENTOR.

A ATTORNEY;

i forming part of an ashtray.

Patented Feb. 13, 1940 t 2,189,842

- UNITED STATES .PATENTgzOFFlCE 1: 2,189,842 p s s SMOKERfS'DEVIGE' I Adolph H S meb y, Los Angeles, Calif., assignor to i Hoepli & .00., New York, N. Y a copartnership Application October 15, 1936, Serial No. 105,770 7 p s GClaims. (01. 131-432,) j I I This invention relates to smokers devices and Figure 2 is an edge'view of the cutting blades.

is herein illustrated in the form of a cigar or v Figure3 is a plan view of the same. i cigarette cutter having parts adapted to remove Figure 4 shows the device cleaning outthe bowl debris from the bowl of a smokers pipe and as of 'asmokers pipe: I i

. Figure 5 is an enlarged side view of the cutting f8- Hitherto, when a cigarette was'discarded by a blades. 1 i i smoker, a careful smoker stamped the lighted =In the form shown an ashtray l0, which may end several times on an ashtray to extinguish "it; be of'stamped metal has a boss I I stamped upwhile a careless smoker unwilling to take that warclly at the center of its base ii. A fiat strip 10 trouble merely tossed it into the ashtray and let 13 of resilient suitable gauge steel is shown as 10 i it smolder and smoke. Moreover, no satisfac- 'held to the boss H by the head ofa bolt l 5 tory cigar cutter has yet been devised suitable which is drawn down against the strip by anut to mount upon the usual ashtray, and no conit threaded on under the boss ll. venient device for removing the debris from the The strip [3 is shown as bent straight up at 15 bowl of a smokers pipe has been devised which is each side at H near the edge of the boss H form- 15 suitable either to carry in the pocket or to mount ing a resilient or spring stretch l8 at each side. upon an ash tray. Further up, at I9 each stretch I8 is shown as According to the present invention the foregogiven a quarter turn to form a pair of flat poring and other difficulties and objections are overtions and 2| which overlap from near the g 20 come, and a device is provided which may be turns 19 to their tops. The outsides of the plates 20 carried in the pocket as a pocket cigar cutter, or 20 and 2! are shown as each shaped in a curve which is well adapted to form part of an ashtray t0 ap y fit One half of the inside of a to serve as a smokers article. typical smokers pipe, and then each outside bends In the form shown the cutting device is formed down slightly to where the outside edges of the i by two resilient plates cut away Where they face overlapping plates cross, thus making a smooth 25 one another to form a nearly circular opening curve when the Plates are sprung together with inwardly projecting teeth. The plates are around their resilient stretches l8 to fit the inside shown as parts of a single strip of sheet steel, base of pipe 22, see Figure 4. Thus the plates fit fast, at its middle, to the center of the tray, and a large variety of pipe bowls nd yi in y slip. with resilient stretches between the tray and Over irregularities in the bOWls. i 30 the blades on which the blades turn as they yield For cutting olT cigars or cigarettes, the over-, and which also yield to permit the backs of the lapping reeach cut a y t form a row blades to enter the bow] of a k r pipe, of teeth 23, so that all the teeth together form The yielding stretches of the resilient strip apprommately a circle, e the plates 20 an yieldingly press the back of the blades against stand in theirnormal posltion- 35 the sides of the bowl to aid incleaning out its To cut Off a clgar end E end of the 83 i1-regu1arjties held by one hand in the circle of teeth 23, while While the structureholding the blades is dethe other hand, usually by thumb and finger, scribed as fast to the ashtray it is shown as closes the a and 2|, on a other. As 40 bolted thereto, thus permitting vthe trays and the fiat portions of the plates slide over each 40 blades to be shipped knocked down and set up at gggig gg fi s ?)ifigg gg ig ggi yg a: the retall StPre Where Sold cigar, and are found to satisfactorily bite it ofi Q P of the Plades are shown as even though they need be no sharper than the vided with bitlng teeth instead of sharpened cutstamping operation leaves them when they 6 ting edges. It is found that such teeth bite ofi mach the end of a cigar effectively and hold it without similarly the teeth bite OE and disintegrate a s pp d also b te a Cigarette in tWO a short piece of a cigarette so that the burned end, integrate the small end cut off it so that it burns if m alight quickly bums up r t rapidly instead of smoldering- In the form shown the teeth" 23 form a circle 50 Other features and dva ta e W hereinafwhich is substantially concentric with the curve ter appear. v of the outer edge, and the left handplate 2| is In the accompanying drawing: shown in front of the right hand plate 20, with Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device the result that a right handed man in cutting a forming part of an ashtray. cigar tends to press the fiat portion 2| against 5:;

the fiat portion 20 and thus cut it more smoothly and firmly.

Having thus described certain embodiments of the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A smokers device formed from a single sheet of metal turned up to form fiat portions havi facing cutting edges and adjacent guide faces lying against each other, and outside edges shaped to fit theinterior of the bowl of a smokers pipe to remove waste by turning the pipe.

2. A smokers device including a plate having one nearly semi-circular cutting edge and an opposite edge approximately conforming to the interior curve of the side of the bowl of a smokers pipe, a correspondingly formed opposing plate,

and a resilient means normally holding the-cutting edges in cutting position but permitting the plates to slide upon one another to fit a pipe or to cut a cigarette or cigar.

3. A smokers device including a plate thin enough to slip between the two parts of a match box and having one nearly semi-circular cutting edge and an opposite edge approximately conforming to the interior curve of the side of the bowl of a smokers pipe, a correspondingly formed opposing plate, and a resilient means normally holding the cutting edges in cutting position but permitting the plates to slide upon one another to fit a pipe or to cut a cigarette or cigar.

4. A smokers device including a plate having one nearly semi-circular cutting edge and an opposite edge approximately conforming to the interior curve of the side of the bowl of a smokers pipe, a correspondingly formed opposing plate lying against the other plate, an ashtray, and a resilient means carrying the plates and fast to the ashtray and normally holding the cutting edges in cutting position but permitting the plates to slide upon one another to fit a pipe or to cut a cigarette or cigar.

t 5. A smokers device including a plate thin enough to'slip between the two parts of a match box and having one nearly semi-circular cutting edge and an opposite edge approximately conforming to the interior curve of the side of the bowl of a smokers pipe, a correspondingly formed opposing plate, an ashtray, and a resilient means carrying the plates and fast to the ashtray and normally holding the cutting edges in cutting position but permitting the plates to slide upon one another to fit a pipe or to cut a cigarette or cigar.

6. A smokers device formed from a single sheet of metal turned up to form fiat portions having facing cutting edges and adjacent guides faces lying against each other, outside edges shaped to fit the interior of the bowl of a smokers pipe to remove waste by turning the pipe, a flat spring section connecting the turned up portions, and a tray to which the spring section is held.

ADOLPH H. SMIEBY. 

